Sunday, April 6, 2008
The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic school for lunch.
At the head of the table was a large pile of apples.
The nun had made a note, "Take only one, God is watching!"
Moving through the line, to the other end of the table, was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.
One of the boys had written a note, "Take all you want, God is watching the apples."
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At the head of the table was a large pile of apples.
The nun had made a note, "Take only one, God is watching!"
Moving through the line, to the other end of the table, was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.
One of the boys had written a note, "Take all you want, God is watching the apples."
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Island of the World
Michael O’Brien, an honourable author with a Christian background, best known for his recent novels “Eclipse of the Sun” and “Plague journal", who is also an honourable painter, illustrator of his own covers, in his 800 pages work “Island of the World” tells the story of Josip Lasta, a man who grows up in the turbulent time of the Second World War and who lives in "communist" Yugoslavia. As Lasta’s life goes by, the region lives important events and the hero soon finds himself in front of the key moments of his life and of the most challenging tests of his soul.
O’Brien thinks that the western civilisation has come to its sunset and that we are threaten by new Totalitarianism. He fights against the uniformity of the world, and he insists on the value of human life.
I am intrigued. Gotta read this book...
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O’Brien thinks that the western civilisation has come to its sunset and that we are threaten by new Totalitarianism. He fights against the uniformity of the world, and he insists on the value of human life.
I am intrigued. Gotta read this book...
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Always So Good
As a big fan of Jeremy Irons, I really wish I could see this play and hope they will eventually televise it.
It has been said Irons gave a masterful performance as an old-school politician, Harold Macmillan who was the British prime minister from 1957-63 when the Beatles and Swinging London were starting to change the world in "Never So Good" at London's National Theatre.
Macmillan was wounded five times in World War I, survived a plane crash in World War II, connived with U.S. President Eisenhower to end the 1956 Middle East War over the Suez Canal, and was there when Kennedy faced the Cuban missile crisis.
But he is best known for having to resign from office following what became tagged as the Profumo Affair when the U.K. minister of war became embroiled in sexual shenanigans with a woman named Christine Keeler, who also was sleeping with a Russian spy(!).
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It has been said Irons gave a masterful performance as an old-school politician, Harold Macmillan who was the British prime minister from 1957-63 when the Beatles and Swinging London were starting to change the world in "Never So Good" at London's National Theatre.
Macmillan was wounded five times in World War I, survived a plane crash in World War II, connived with U.S. President Eisenhower to end the 1956 Middle East War over the Suez Canal, and was there when Kennedy faced the Cuban missile crisis.
But he is best known for having to resign from office following what became tagged as the Profumo Affair when the U.K. minister of war became embroiled in sexual shenanigans with a woman named Christine Keeler, who also was sleeping with a Russian spy(!).
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